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Vitamin D and Viral Respiratory Tract Infections – Not Exactly a Panacea

By apena17 on August 18, 2020August 24, 2020

Over the past couple of weeks, vitamin D supplementation has been looked at as a potential therapy for COVID-19. Basic science data suggests that vitamin D has an immunomodulatory effects, such as upregulation of oxidative burst in activated macrophages in tuberculosis, or modulation of cytokine profiles that limits excessive production of pro-inflammatory cytokines in viral

Posted in: LRTI, Respiratory tract infections, Viruses

#FOAMID ID Guide Myocarditis

Fulminant Myocarditis – Not as Bad as You Once Thought.

By apena17 on July 22, 2020

Acute myocarditis is one of those diseases that is a catastrophic due to its dramatic presentation and because we never pinpoint the etiology. People tend to be deathly ill and almost any virus can lead to this cardiac manifestation. Most of the time, short of giant cell myocarditis, there really is not much to do.

Posted in: Fulminant myocarditis, IVIG, Myocarditis, Viruses